There’s just something about Brentleigh ware that I can’t resist, and this one is no exception.
What attracts me to this one isn’t the ridged finish, it isn’t the colours which are pretty worn and marked on this vase anyway. It’s certainly not the roses which whilst delicately painted just don’t do anything for the vase.
The [...]

Another Brentleigh Ware vase, but this time a Croma L pattern. It still has the same trademark ribbing all the way up the body of the vase but a much more pronounced lip than the Ballina which doesn’t have a lip at all.
Sadly the decoration is if anything even worse. A pale green (the photo [...]

There’s something almost unfinished about this vase.
It’s typical of Brentleigh Ware that the glaze gives a natural pottery look to the main body of the vase, but on this one the flowers themselves look almost as if they’re chalked on and have never been glazed. The leaves are the same, there’s no vibrancy to the [...]